I have arrived in Spain!!  I cannot believe that I am actually going to live here for the next four months.  Barcelona is a beautiful city, full of crazy art and architecture, a mixture of new and old, and full of people!!  I had my first spanish class today, it was beginner two, and it was really too easy for me so I switched into Intermediate Intensive which means I have class for three hours, three times per week.  I am really excited to learn so that I can actually speak the language.  

I live with a host family- really only a host mom but she is absolutely wonderful.  She is super nice and very helpful and she has been hosting students for 19 years so she has really got the system down.  I have two roommates and we share and apartment upstairs while our host mom sleeps downstairs with a French exchange student and a young Spanish guy who works in Barcelona.  We all eat dinner together which is really fun because we are really forced to speak Spanish and practice the language all the time!  I am about 15 minutes away from school on the metro, which has a stop right next to our apartment, and school is right downtown.  It is really nice and has all the amenities we could ever need including, a computer lab, printers, doctors, etc.  

This week is just Spanish class and getting to know our classmates, but next week "real school" begins.  Hopefully I will do some serious exploring this week and weekend so I can get to know the city better!!  Besos